News - Batawa - The new location for the Trenton Kinsmen Fishing Tackle Show in Batawa was an
overwhelming success on Sunday.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had first-time vendors
calling us,â&#x20AC;? said organizer Bill
Newbery. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were 14 years at the
arena but this space has so much
more room. People are already
booking for the September 20
fishing and hunting show here.â&#x20AC;?
The vendors loved it too.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;You can spread out,â&#x20AC;? said
Frankford vendor Patrick Daradick
with a display of vintage fishing
tackle. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s much more relaxed.
Too bad itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not spring weather.â&#x20AC;?
The Batawa Community Centre
was filled with vendors in all three
rooms and the place was packed
with fishing enthusiasts. There
was very little room in the parking
lot and people were parked on the
road between the snowdrifts.
There were some unusual
products as well as fishing lures
and poles. Crystal Crawford from
Port Hope had handmade native
crafts including dream catchers,
medicine bags and moose hide
slippers from Native Dreams.
Adam Davidson from Cobourg
had a selection of tin â&#x20AC;&#x153;Man Caveâ&#x20AC;?
signs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have some for the
women too,â&#x20AC;? he said with a smile.

News â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Quinte West â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Will winter
never end?
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t had a winter like
this in 30 years,â&#x20AC;? said Mayor John
Williams at Quinte West council
Monday night.
Public Works manager Chris
Angelo said the city has already
spent $700,000 on salt and sand for
the roads this year.
Councillor Jim Harrison asked if
Public Works is including increasing
costs for next year. Angelo said
that is included in the 2014 budget.
He added that potholes are also

expensive and time-consuming.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We spend a fair bit of time filling
potholes when weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not plowing,â&#x20AC;?
Angelo said.
Councillor Paul Kyte asked if
Public Works is predicting another
norâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;easter coming this way. Angelo
said there will be flurries and more
snow.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are monitoring the weather
all the time,â&#x20AC;? he said.
John Williams said the roads
crews are doing a great job. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
want to compare us with other
municipalities, but just drive down
number two highway,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Harrison said he just got back
from a roads conference and, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
great to be home.â&#x20AC;?
Councillor Leslie Roseblade asked
if these potholes are a big cost to
repair. Angelo said they are included
in their roads budget. He noted his
staff may have to reprioritize their
list after a spring review.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The number of potholes is fairly
extensive this year,â&#x20AC;? he admitted.
Councillor Jim Alyea said he has
had a lot of complaints about the
potholes, but there are still effects
from the ice storm. He said that
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in one place there are trees still hanging low over the road.
Trucks are scraping the side of the tree branches as they
drive by, and he is concerned that a nearby swamp will make
it worse when it overflows in the spring.
Staff also discussed Bill 69 and the cost of construction
going up for municipalities. Finance director David Clazie
said they will have a shorter time to pay and it will put the
power back to the contractors. Councillor Fred Kuypers
commented it may create more lawsuits. He asked if private
contractors are allowed to dump snow in the pit. Angelo said
that has been in place for many years.
Councillor Ron Hamilton commented on a new doctor at
the Quinte West Medical Centre from the doctor recruitment
program. Hamilton also said there are too many protests in
the area that take away police from our community. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our
own community doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get looked after,â&#x20AC;? he said.
Williams noted that he had a letter back from Belleville
council in response to Quinte Westâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s request for support in
establishing the federal governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Joint Task Force-2
in Quinte West. Belleville has fully supported the program
including the acquisition of all lands to relocate the base
here.
Inspector Mike Reynolds noted there will be an all-day
conference in Batawa on March 27 called Building Safe
Communities, with keynote speakers and lunch.
Williams said he is going to talk to the Minister of the
Environment this week with Member of Parliament Rick
Norlock and Peterborough cruise operator Mark Eckert
about Trent Severn Waterway service levels.
It was noted that a group has been formed called Canal
District to support economic interests on the Murray Canal,
Bay of Quinte and Presquâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ile. The first meeting was held
last week in Brighton. See www.murraycanaldistrict.ca for
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help each other, speak without swearing
and take good care of this place.
He asks the youth to respect each
other, but he also sets the bar high. There
is no swearing at all. As a Christianbased organization this is made very
clear.
With a good reputation, the Frankford
Youth Centre is gaining more support.
Service clubs such as the Frankford
Lions and Trenton Rotary have
helped out, along with the Wallbridge
Orangemen’s Club. A major fund-raiser
dinner and auction will be held in April
at the Lions Club, organized by Lois
Thompson.
For March break, the Frankford
Youth Centre has a whole list of The mission of the centre is to care for the youth of Frankford area.
activities, just waiting for people to Photo: Kate Everson
sign up. From March 10 to 14 it will
be open every afternoon from 1 to 4
p.m. for $50 a week or by the day. This
SHERI THOMPSON &
includes guitar lessons, dance camp
with Cassandra, hikes, crafts, kitchen
DAGNEY BENTON
fun, ball hockey, watercolour painting
and YMCA swimming. Register to
Lawyers
reserve a spot! Call the centre at 613398-1211 or see the web site at <www.
Jason Wryghte relaxes at the Frankford Youth frankfordyouthcentre.ca> or go to the
Providing Legal Services in the areas of Real Estate,
link on Facebook.
Centre. Photo: Kate Everson

613-969-9126

By Kate Everson

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News - Frankford - The mission for the Frankford Youth
Family & Divorce, Disability, Civil Litigation, and
Centre tells a lot about why the program is there at 11 King
Wills & Estates.
Street.
“Our mission is to love and serve the youth of Frankford
365 North Front Street, Suite 204, Belleville, ON
and area in positive, practical ways,” says executive director
Jason Wryghte.
The Frankford Youth Centre has been going since October,
2012, after renovating an old two-storey house owned by
Frank Vreudgenhil. With a few months of free rent and a lot
365 North Front St. Unit 7, Belleville, ON K8P 5A5
of volunteers to get started, the centre has been a focal point
for youth to come and relax, socialize and play games after
school.
“We get about ten kids every night,” says Jason. “We could
take more.”
New York City
It costs nothing to the students from Grade 6 up to high
school age to come there from Tuesday to Friday. They even
March 11-14 or
get free snacks.
March 13-16, 2014
“It’s all done on donations,” Jason says. “We are not
incorporated yet, so we have no grant money.”
March 19, 2014
He says he has been touched by the warmth and generosity
of the community.
“Sometimes a person will come to the door with a loaf of
bread or a cheque,” he says. “That’s one of the sweet things
Kingston: 1:00-2:30 p.m. or
about being here.”
4:00-5:30 p.m. Details at
The youth centre was started by two local churches, Free
Methodist and Christian Reformed, but is supported by all the The Frankford Youth Centre is located at 11 King Street. Photo: Kate Everson
(613) 969-8884 www.GoMcCoy.com
churches, either financially or morally. Many volunteers who
come to help out have no connection to any of the churches
but just want to support the youth in their community.
“Everybody gets behind loving and serving the youth in
our area,” Jason says.
During the week, most of the students come from Frankford
Public School or Batawa with a few from Bayside Secondary
School or St. Paul Catholic Secondary School. On Friday
nights it’s a music night and students come from all over,
including Brighton, Belleville and Trenton.
“Friday night we hook up the sound equipment and the
kids play music,” Jason says. “There is free food and the
doors are open until 11 p.m.”
He notes the free food ends at one slice of pizza and a Coke
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Dear Editor
Daryl Krampâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s comments in the press last
week in support of the (Un) Fair Elections Act
were typical Conservative propaganda. Equally
disappointing was that he voted (along with
the entire Conservative caucus) against the
Oppositionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s call for cross-Canada Committee
Meetings to discuss the Fair Elections Act.
Think about that! Rather than being able to
tell Parliamentarians in their own communities
the concerns they might have about this Act,
Canadians were told they could drive to Ottawa
or Skype in if they wanted to provide feedback to
one of the most important rights of citizenship: the
right to vote in fair elections.
There is much that is not fair about the Fair
Elections Act. It is a blatant attempt by the
Harper Government to once again undermine
our democracy. Changes to the act that minimize
the vote in a sector of the population least likely
to vote Conservative is deplorable. Once again,
Harper is showing his true colours: Harperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
Government is only interested in their base, plus
the 10% of the populace that they have microtargeted to most likely vote Conservative. Forget
the rest of the electorate; forget about the rest of
Canadians. They would prefer the rest of us just
to stay home.
What is even more disconcerting is the Harper
Government goal of minimizing another thorn
in their side, by minimizing the ability of the
Chief Electoral OfďŹ cer to perform the duties
of his original mandate. If they truly wanted a
fairer electoral process they would give the Chief
Electoral ofďŹ cer more power and more importantly
more resources to perform his task. The problems

A little tax season help

in the Act are not with the mandate of the Chief
Electoral ofďŹ cer, but with the lack of resources
for him to properly investigate the wrongdoings
perpetuated on an unsuspecting electorate. But
Harperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Conservatives do not wish to ďŹ x the
real problems with the Act. They would rather
ďŹ x the problem with the Chief Electoral OfďŹ cer
investigating their misdeeds.
This is a common thread with the Harper
Government: if they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like someone looking
too closely or disagreeing with their view, then
attack, bully, manipulate, obfuscate, circumvent
and ultimately change the laws to better suit their
purposes.
We cannot allow this to continue! Not only are
our democratic institutions being undermined,
the future of our country is being unnecessarily
jeopardised just to appease their desire to rule.
We need to once again strengthen our democratic
institutions. More importantly, we need to start
to ďŹ nd common ground. We have to get past the
polarization, the â&#x20AC;&#x153;us against themâ&#x20AC;? mentality.
We must include not just more voters, but more
voices in the laying out a vision for our country
â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a vision where we ďŹ nd common ground and
work together for a better Canada, a Canada that
will once again lead the world in doing what is
right because it is the right thing to do! We can no
longer run our country in a manner that suits the
interests of a party. That path leads to ruin for all
Canadians. Canadians deserve better and should
demand better.
Mike Bossio
Federal Liberal Candidate Contestant for
Hastings, Lennox and Addington

Dear Editor,
Are your readers aware of the fact, when completing their 2013 income tax, if they check
off the box to receive the OTB (Ontario Trillium BeneďŹ ts) in a lump sum they will not receive
a cheque until June 2015. This was conďŹ rmed by Finance Minister Sousaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s letter to me on
August 26, 2013.
Sincerely, C. J. Peckford,
Marmora

Curl for Cancer coming to
Trenton Curling Club
Events â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Quinte West â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Trenton Curling Club
is hosting a Curl for Cancer on April 2, 2014.
Previous Curl for Cancer events hosted by Trenton have raised funds for the Hastings-Prince
Edward unit of the Canadian Cancer Society.
This year organizers are looking for 24 teams
to take part in a fun day of curling. Draws will
be at 8:30 a.m. and 10 a.m. The winners in these
draws will play again in the afternoon. There is
no fee for your entry. Donations to the Cancer
Society are your entry fee.
At noon the Celebrity Short End challenge
will take place. This event is always fun to
watch.

A chili lunch will be available from 11 a.m.
while the chili lasts. Seasons Dufferin Centre are
providing desserts to accompany the chili lunch.
For a small donation you can enjoy lunch.
During the day a silent auction will take
place, with over 30 items available. Included
will be gift certiďŹ cates, crafts and artwork, all
generously donated.
Trenton Curling Club will be decorated with
paper curling rocks, purchased for a small fee.
Buy one in memory of, or in support of someone
dealing with cancer.
For more information call 613-392-5244 or
email wjogjo@gmail.com.

Batawa Ski Hill
The snow is
fresh on the
Batawa Ski Hill
as young and
old enjoy the
last of winter.

Recognizing our Local Volunteers

Photo: Kate
Everson

The core of the community is found in those volunteers that work with countless agencies,
churches and organizations, tirelessly fulfilling the needs of so many.

QUINTE WEST
COMMUNITY POLICING

(right) Shawn McMurter was one of the competitors in the annual race held
with the Batawa Ski Hill Racing Team in the U14 slalom event on Sunday.

would like to recognize

Carolyn Stevenson

Photo: Kate Everson

For more information on volunteer
opportunities, contact:

613-969-8862 or visit online
www.viq.ca
If you would like to submit the name of someone who gives freely of their time and talents to our
community, please send details and contact information to:
250 Sidney St., P.O. Box 25009
Belleville, ON K8P 5E0
s EMAIL JKEARNS THEEMCCA
6 Quinte West EMC - Thursday, March 6, 2014

A premature history of the second Cold War
Editorial – The first mistake of the
Ukrainian revolutionaries was to abandon the agreement of February 23 to create a national unity government, including some of the revolutionary leaders,
that would administer the country until
new elections in December. It would
have left President Viktor Yanukovych
in office until then, but with severely
diminished powers, as the constitution
would have been changed to restore the
Gwynne Dyer authority of parliament.
Leaving a man who ordered the murder of dozens of protesters in power even temporarily was
a bitter pill to swallow, but it had tacit Russian support because it saved President Vladimir Putin’s face. However, the
crowds on Independence Square refused to accept the deal,
and Yanukovych was forced to flee.
Parliament subsequently ratified his removal, but it was
the mob, and especially the right-wing fighting groups like
Praviy Sektor, who led, and the leadership who followed. Putin was humiliated, and he was given the pretext for claiming
that Ukraine had fallen to a “fascist coup” as a justification,
however flimsy, for rejecting the legitimacy of the new Ukrainian government.
The second grave error – and this one was entirely unforced
– was the new government’s decision to repeal the law giving
Russian equal status as an official language in provinces with
large Russian-speaking populations. It delighted Ukrainianspeaking ultra-nationalists in the west of the country, but it
needlessly alienated the two-fifths of Ukraine’s population
who speak Russian as their first language.
So now Putin is bringing pressure on the new Ukrainian
government by backing a secessionist movement in Crimea
(where three-fifths of the people speak Russian). The rubberstamp Russian parliament has also granted him authority to
use Russian troops elsewhere in Ukraine to “protect” Russians – by which it seems to mean Ukrainians in eastern
Ukraine who speak Russian, although they are not actually
under attack.
Putin has not yet sent Russian troops into the eastern parts
of Ukraine. However, pro-Russian crowds have appeared in
cities like Kharkov, Donetsk and Lugansk demanding Russian “protection” amid plausible reports that many people in
those crowds are actually Russians imported from just across

the border for the occasion, and not Russian-speaking Ukrainians at all. The promised Ukrainian election on May 25 may
never happen.
The Ukrainian army has been mobilised, and actual fighting could be only days away if the Russians invade eastern Ukraine, or attack the encircled Ukrainian garrisons in
Crimea. Maybe Putin is just bluffing; more likely, he doesn’t
yet know himself how far he is willing to go. But one thing
generally leads to another, and some bluffs are hard to walk
away from. Are we on the brink of a new Cold War?
It wouldn’t be a hot war, except in Ukraine. Nobody will
send troops to defend Ukraine, nor should they. Nobody is in
position to stop Russia from conquering Ukraine if it chooses
to, and turning it into a wider European war (or a world war)
would not help matters.
In any case, Moscow would probably not try to conquer
all of Ukraine. Kyiv and the west would fight very hard, and
after they were defeated they would continue to resist a Russian occupation with guerilla tactics, including terrorism. Putin doesn’t need that, so part of Ukraine would remain free,
and call for outside help.
It would come, in the form of financial and military aid,
and maybe even what has hitherto been rigorously excluded
from the discussion: NATO membership. And there Russia
and everybody in NATO would sit for the next five or ten or
twenty years in a frozen confrontation that would include a
trade embargo, an arms race, and a remote but real possibility
of a nuclear war.
This is not at all what Putin intends or expects, of course.
He is calculating that once he controls the Russian-speaking
parts of Ukraine, he will be able to enforce a restructuring
of the country as a federation in which the government of
the eastern, Russian-speaking part will be permanently under
Russia’s thumb, and will have a veto on the decisions of the
central government.
But Putin’s calculations about Ukraine have been wrong
every single time since the turn of the century. He backed
Yanukovych before 2004, and the Orange Revolution proved
him wrong. He backed Yanukovych even more enthusiastically after 2010; the policy blew up in his face again. And
here he is yet again, backing Yanukovych as the president-inexile of his Russia-friendly fantasy version of Ukraine.
His calculations are wrong. If he continues down this road,
he will cause a quite needless political disaster.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Informed voters have the power to make change
Dear Editor
I feel compelled to write this letter because of the things I
have read or heard in the news.
We all know that Wynne will have to call an election sooner or later. Hopefully sooner before we are even further down
the toilet than we are now. Hence the time is now to start following what this collection of clowns we call politicians are
saying. Irregardless of the “fact” that we all know we can’t
trust a politician’s promises, especially at election time, you
can still glean some insights into the way they think. (scary
as that may be.) Also look at their past performance and voting record on different bills and such. How many times has a
politician said one thing and then voted the opposite. We all
know these self-serving liars will promise what you want to
hear until they get elected and then it’s so sorry, no can do.
If you vote without knowing the issues you are just as bad
and useless as the ones who don’t vote. If you vote for a person or party just because your parents did you are part of
the problem and not too smart either. If you think jokers care

about you give your head a shake, they don’t unless it’s good
for their career.
People, if you are literate at all you “know” that politicians always look after themselves first. Sure, once in a while
they throw us a bone, but only after all their buddies and loud
mouth special interest nuts have picked it pretty clean. Politicians know that special interest groups get some voters out so
they will entertain their ideas no matter how zany or unrealistic their demands.
We do have the power to change things. Informed voting is
one of those powers. Remember we hire politicians by voting
and we pay them through taxes. So contrary to popular belief
and the way politicians think, they are our employees. It is
time to start making these egotistical and self-serving bunch
of clowns toe the line and start doing what the majority of us
know is right. After all that’s what democracy is all about.

Memories of 2008
come flooding back
By Stephen Petrick
Editorial – I’m not an expert on weather, but I subscribe to the
theory that every few years Mother Nature gives you an abominable
winter. This seems to be one of those. The image of tall snow banks
and the chill of -20C March weather is taking me back to 2008, the
last time we got a mega wallop of snow that lasted into spring.
The snow that year eventually turned to water and the Moira River
in Belleville overflowed, leading to stories of sorrow, laughter and
even some heroics. I’ll never forget it because it was part of my first
full year living in our region of river-based communities and one of
my more interesting experiences as a young journalist.
I had moved from my native town of Kingston to Belleville just
months earlier to work for a daily newspaper. The loneliness of
such a move wasn’t helped by the bone-chilling cold and relentless
amount of snow.
The biggest blizzard, I recall, was the last one. It lasted two full
days of March Break and once snow ploughs got on the roads, the
snow banks seemed about ten feet high. I remember it took me hours
to shovel off just a single parking space at my apartment.
The sight of large snow banks in broad daylight at 7 p.m. was
a memorable experience, too, since daylight savings time had just
moved to mid-March. It was hard for me to believe that opening day
of the Major League Baseball season – my own personal benchmark
for the official start of spring – was only two weeks away.
But the snow eventually melted and it did so fast. By late March
the Moira River along Belleville flowed like a white-water rafting
course and roared with the wind. The flood plains in around Foxboro,
just north of the city, began to fill up. Water started creeping eerily
towards people’s houses.
I walked into the newsroom one Monday morning in April and
was assigned immediately to head to the Ashley Street and Harmony
Road area in Foxboro, where the floods, I was told, were causing
serious damage.
I rushed out expecting to see heartbreak and devastation. I ended
up seeing people, well, smiling, and having a good time.
I’m not trying to trivialize the situation. Some people may have
lost property or saw their basements ruined during the event, which
couldn’t have been fun. But these floods may have, in the end, caused
more good than harm.
I saw neighbours helping neighbours by lining sandbags along the
homes, with the help of firefighters and friends. I looked hard for the
story that would really hit home; the story on the homeowners who
lost everything. In the end, the most emotional people I could find
were the mother and son who were just tickled pink that a TV guy
from Toronto interviewed them for Global News.
I learned that of all the natural disasters one can be exposed to,
a flood – at least a flood of this proportion – is probably one of the
more gentle kinds. Sure, it was a little scary but it was better than a
hurricane, a major earthquake or a volcano spilling lava.
In time the water receded and the stories about the logistics of
sandbag deliveries turned to stories focussing on the heroes; the firefighters who rushed to the scenes to help out and the tireless volunteers. Life returned to normal in the area north of Belleville and I
suspect it has pretty much stayed that way since.
But with another late spring upon us, and a healthy supply of midMarch snow, who would bet against another sudden thaw and floods
along the Moira, the Trent River or any other local waterway?
Get your sandbags ready.
It could be the time of your life.
Stephen Petrick is a freelance journalist and communications
specialist based in Belleville. He contributes to Metroland Media as
a reporter and editor.

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Senator talks to Liberals about Women in Politics
News - Quinte West - Newly independent Senator Mobina Jaffer, a strong
advocate for equal rights for women
and minorities and chair of the Senate
Standing Committee on Human Rights,
was the guest speaker at the third annual
Heritage Dinner for the Bay of Quinte
Federal Liberal Association held at the
Knights of Columbus Hall in Trenton on
February 26.
An accomplished lawyer who speaks
six languages, she was also Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
special envoy for peace in Sudan from
2002 to 2006, and is Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first
Muslim senator, first African-born
senator, and the first senator of South
Asian descent.
Senator Mobina Jaffer with local president John
Brisbois. Photo: Kate Everson

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Am I a Liberal?â&#x20AC;? she asked,
referring to party leader Justin Trudeauâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
designating all Liberal Senators as
Independents. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am still a Liberal,â&#x20AC;? she
said at the group of Liberal supporters.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;What Justin did was a good thing. It was
very brave.â&#x20AC;?
She admitted she is not young and it
took a while to adjust in her mind, but she
said they will come out stronger. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He did
a service,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I adore Justin.â&#x20AC;?

Notice of Annual General Meeting
Notice is hereby given that the 60th annual meeting of
QuintEssential Credit Union Limited will be held at the
Bay of Quinte Country Club, 1830 Old Highway 2, Quinte
West, Ontario at 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, 18th March 2014. The
registration is to commence at 6:30 p.m.
The purpose of the meeting is for the Board to place before
the members:
â&#x20AC;˘ the audited ďŹ nancial statements of the credit union;
â&#x20AC;˘ the report of the auditor;
â&#x20AC;˘ the report of the audit committee;
â&#x20AC;˘ such further information respecting the ďŹ nancial
position of the credit union and the results of its
operations as the Board determines should be presented
to the members.
A document package containing copies of the ďŹ nancial
statements, reports of the audit committee, the auditor and the
loan ofďŹ cer shall be available at the meeting and at the ofďŹ ces
of the Credit Union on March 7.

Dated at the City of Belleville, the county of Hastings, the
27th of February, 2014.

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Alex Shatford, Corporate Secretary

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She noted her family were refugees
in Uganda before they were allowed to
come to Canada.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;His father saved my life,â&#x20AC;? she said.
Jaffer said she often goes back to
Uganda to visit, but will never again take
for granted the freedom she has here.
She has been in Canada for 37 years.
She urges young people to get involved
in politics and not to take their rights for
granted.
Jaffer said having more women
in politics can make a difference not
just on womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s issues but on whole
communities. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They have a different
perspective,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We need both
men and women to strengthen our
country.â&#x20AC;?
She said she does not like the
Olympics. She has seen how women
are abused around the world and wants
to change that. In Germany, where
prostitution is legal, during the Olympics
she saw warehouses set up for 100,000 Liberal candidate Peter Tinsley talks with Senator Mobina Jaffer. Photo: Kate Everson
men to be serviced by women. Through
the work of KAIROS, a charitable
organization whose funding was cut by
the Conservative government, they were
able to reduce this to 40,000.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We need to stop sex trafficking,â&#x20AC;? she
stated.
She noted that Canada stopped women
coming from overseas as prostitutes but
has seen young aboriginal girls doing that
job on the streets to entertain men for the
Olympics. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have seen ten-, eleven- and
twelve-year-olds walking the streets,â&#x20AC;?
she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It broke my heart.â&#x20AC;?
In Calcutta she has seen what
Canadians can do to stop sex traffic
through the International Justice Missions
of Canada. It protects the girl, puts money
into the justice system, takes care of the
girls for up to six or seven years and
helps transform society. Investigators go
in and get the girls out. Prosecutors send
the criminals to jail.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Imagine if we did this as a
government, what a difference it would
make,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The world would Belleville Mayor Neil Ellis, a Liberal candidate in the next federal election, enjoys the dinner.
begin to get itâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;we cannot treat women Photo: Kate Everson
as commodities.â&#x20AC;?
In Calcutta, Jaffer was shocked to
see girls and women of all ages on the
streets. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One young Nepali girl stared at
me,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was a look of absolute
betrayal.â&#x20AC;?
Jaffer said we could stop this if we put
our resources in to put traffickers in jail
which would send a message that every
girl is important.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have lots to do,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We
have to hear the pleas of women in
Canada and around the world. Each one
of us can make a difference, ordinary
Canadians who care.â&#x20AC;?
The Bay of Quinte Federal Liberal
Riding Association is introducing a
Bridge Forum with four speakers this
year on Women In Politics, held twice
in spring and twice in the fall. This
yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spring speakers are Marlene Brant
Castellano and Susan Dellacourt with
events held at Capers in Belleville as a
Former Liberal MPP Lou Rinaldi chats with other Liberals. Photo: Kate Everson
fund raiser.

Entertainment â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Quinte West â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The
Trent Port Theatre had a fantastic performance on Monday night from blues
rock musician Ross Neilsen from the
east coast. Neilsen has performed over
1,000 shows and has travelled more than
half a million kilometers, from coast to
coast, over the past six years.

Opening the show was local musician
Jordan Thomas. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a local favourite,â&#x20AC;?
said Pat Clark, who organized the
event.
Neilsen was nominated for Best
New Artist at The Maple Blues Awards
in 2010 and earned two Rising Star
nominations from CBC. He also earned
back-to-back Blues Album of the Year

Local
musician
Jordan Thomas performs at the Trent
Port Theatre on
March 3, opening
for Ross Neilsen.
Photo: Kate Everson

nominations from the East Coast Music
Association. His album, Redemption,
won Best Blues Recording at the 2013
MusicNB awards. He was also a semi
finalist in the solo/duo category at
the International Blues Challenge in
Memphis in 2012. More recently he
received five nominations from Music

New Brunswick, including Album
of the Year, best group and best rock
recording for Resurrection as well
as Best Male Solo recording for The
Shack Up Sessions and a win for best
blues recording.
After the demise of The Sufferinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;
Bastards in December 2011, Ross

Neilsen spent much of last year
rebuilding his musical foundation with
a new trio, the Ross Neilsen Band. The
old school, in-your-face guitar playing,
coupled with a thunderous, tight
rhythm, has been Neilsenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trademark
for years. He blurs the lines between
pop, blues and rock.

Kids, group ﬁtness for ages
10 to 13, Teen Yoga for ages
seven to 13 and Youth Nights
Drop-In for ages eight to 14.
There is also the Saturday
Morning Club for ages seven
to nine with a wide variety of
team building, active games
and challenges. The Youth
Connect Program is another
new program that helps teens
connect and make friends at
the Y. Friday is also Family
Zumba classes; dance at your
own pace to the music.
New is Aqua Boot Camp,
taught in deep water with
high intensity.
“Resistance in the water
is harder,” notes instructor
Martha Palm-Leis. “We get
a wide range of ages for that
class. It’s really popular.”
Martha also instructs
Family Aqua Fitness for
the whole family, taught
in shallow and deep water
to
music,
combining
cardiovascular and muscle
strength as well as stretching.
“Water is easier on the
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“We have a lot of new
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have injuries or had surgery, this is low
impact and helps tone and stretch your
muscles in the warm pool. We also have
Aqua Yoga which is very relaxing.”
Youth Aquatics includes Aqua Sports
designed for children to learn new skills
for sports like water polo, underwater
hockey, speed swimming and lifeguard
sport. Participants must be seven to 12
and able to swim 100 metres and tread
water for one minute.
A Babysitting Course on March 7 is
available for ages 11 up designed to help
youth be conﬁdent caring for children
and what to do in emergency situations.
Birthday Parties can also be booked at
the YMCA, with or without a prepared
lunch. Parties include party room, gym
and pool activities.
Martha is also very excited about
the Youth Leader Corps program. It
provides youth the opportunity to
get involved in the YMCA and their
community through various projects,
learn leadership skills and service. The
program is held Tuesdays from 6:30 to
8:30 p.m. open to ages 11 to 15.
“These are the inbetween ages,”
Martha says. “They learn to become
more independent and take on leadership
roles in the community. They learn the
values of the Y.”
Martha said she started out at the Y
at the age of 16 and is now a leader in
training co-ordinator. She says what
young people learn through these
programs is invaluable. In the pool or
on land they shadow the instructors and
get trained in First Aid and endurance.
They help in gymnastics, drama, sports,
cooking, Kitchen for Kids, and even
junior engineering (building bridges and
boats).
“I started here ﬁve years ago, when
the Y opened up,” she said. “It’s a nice
job. It’s a great community, a real family
atmosphere. I love working with kids
and youth. It’s a great experience.”
She said we have to have faith in our
youth and they will rise to the occasion.

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News â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Stirling â&#x20AC;&#x201C; A local food producer
is getting back to business after a late
night fire halted production at the
facility at the west end of the village
nearly three weeks ago.
BioEssential Botanicals owner
Dennis Barker had nothing but praise
for local emergency workers, his own
staff, residents, neighbours and officials
who, he says, have been universally
supportive, helpful and professional
through what has been an unsettling
time for the flourishing seed germinating
company. As a result, he says, what
might have been a disaster turned out to
be little more than a hiccup. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everyone
here (in Sitrling) has been amazing,â&#x20AC;? he
says.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a really good time for us,â&#x20AC;?
Barker notes of the producer of Omega
Meals and other healthy options,
adding consumers around the world
are becoming increasingly concerned
with food quality. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They want good

food,â&#x20AC;? he says. And in several different
forms, from main courses to desserts
and snacks, BioEssential Botanicals
produces exactly that, he adds.
Relieved and pleased that things
are up and running so quickly, and a
full complement of 16 workers have
returned to their jobs, Barker said
Monday before leaving on a business
trip to California, that the ordeal could
have been significantly worse. Away
visiting family in Australia at the time
of the fire, owners Dennis and Gail
Barker were contacted while crews
were still on the scene, he says, and
with the situation in capable hands
they opted not to change their plans,
returning home on schedule.
The decision was also made, he
adds, to continue to pay employees
throughout the shutdown. Business
has been booming for the organic
food company, Barker says, resulting
in a pair of expansions in recent years
and plans for continued future growth.

Man charged following crash

News â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Stirling â&#x20AC;&#x201C; A 26-year-old Spring
Brook man has been charged under the
Highway Traffic Act following a singlevehicle collision last week.
Stirling-Rawdon Police report that
on February 27 at 10:35 p.m. they
investigated a crash on Hoards Road at
Lake Road where the driver attempted

to pull onto the shoulder of the road and
lost control of the vehicle, striking three
road signs. There were no injuries.
If you have any information regarding
this, or any other incident, please call
the Stirling-Rawdon Police Service at
(613) 395-0844 or Crime Stoppers at
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â&#x20AC;&#x153;The support weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had in Stirling has
been incredible,â&#x20AC;? he says, adding their
choice to operate in a small community
instead of a larger centre has proved
invaluable.
Fire Chief Rick Caddick, who was
also out of town at the time of the

fire, says officials from the Office
of the Fire Marshal and Emergency
Management (OFMEM) completed an
on-site investigation immediately after
the fire but further studies are being
conducted. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Crews quickly contained
the fire damage to the east wing of

the building,â&#x20AC;? Caddick says, but, â&#x20AC;&#x153;due
to the large amount of inventory and
commercial equipment on site, the
OFMEM was contacted to investigate.â&#x20AC;?
Caddick says the fire is not
suspicious in nature but remains under
investigation.

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Kinsmen Fishing Show a big hit in Batawa
Continued from page 3

There were all ages attending the
show and even the children were
entertained. Peyton Helm, 16 months,
rode up high on daddy Jakeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s arm
while he balanced an extra large coffee
in the other.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re goinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; fishinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;,â&#x20AC;? he said with
a grin.
The Kids Corner with Susan
Eastbury of the Picton Kinettes had
painting and colouring for the kids.
Her husband is a Trenton Kinsman.
Cameron, six, and Jordyn, seven,
Newbery, were ecstatic at finding all
the flashy fishing lures in the show.
Bonnie had to make sure they only got
a few to bring home.
Steven Tedford from north of

Brighton was a first-time vendor at the
Kinsmen show. He said he had a call
from a friend letting him know about
it. He makes handmade fishing and
hunting knives of African ebony or
South American Cocobolo Rosewood.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a bladesman,â&#x20AC;? he explained.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m here to show off.â&#x20AC;?
Tedford has been making the knives
for 20 years, the last ten years fulltime. It takes him four to 12 hours to
craft one knife.
Larry Cyr of Crazy Creek Fishing
Preserve had a stuffed trout to show
off along with information on how to
catch a live one at his trout farm on
Glen Ross Road. He said students
come out to help on the property, and
all ages enjoy the fishing including

some from the retirement homes.
He said there is no guarantee youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll
catch a trout â&#x20AC;&#x153;but thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a real good
chance.â&#x20AC;?
The Trenton Kinsmen Club
members were also selling raffle
tickets for a barbecue which includes
a setup for ten people at your place.
They provide the food but you have to
provide the beverages. The $2 tickets
will also be on sale at the Kiwanis
fishing tournament on May 3 and the
draw is on Canada Day.
Kiwanian Ryan Gibbs was there with
information on the Kiwanis Walleye
World coming up soon. He was selling
tickets and proudly wearing the 2014
fishing hats already in stock. Spring is
coming!

Photos: Kate Everson

Jake Helm of Trenton brought 16-month-old Peyton with him to the fishing show.
Larry Cyr from Crazy Creek fishing preserve
near Frankford is hoping to lure some trout
enthusiasts.

Steven Tedford from north of Brighton had lots of interest in his handmade knives.
(right) Fishing fanatics of all ages
enjoyed the displays of bright
lures.

(above) Patrick Daradick of Frankford holds up a
1940s magnetic weedless lure from his vintage
collection.